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Author's Note: I've always wanted to write an Inuyasha fanfiction about the idea of…well…you'll find out! 3
DEGENERATION
Chapter 1
Inuyasha had never liked children.
They had never liked him.
It was a silent, mutual understanding between the hanyou and human whelps. That was why he never gave any thought to perfecting his…paternal techniques. That was also why he never gave any thought to how he treated Shippo. There was also the matter of Shippo—the brat as Inuyasha had so formerly named him—being a youkai. Shippo wasn't human, and he definitely didn't act as though he were a small child—only around Kagome that is.
He, being a hanyou, had never, ever thought of siring his own pups. Never in the past had he allowed himself to do so. Who would want a hanyou as the father of their pup? Pup—understandably—would be the more correct term seeing as he was half-inu-youkai. But now…where he was accepted among the village, among his small group of friends, he did have the chance and potential to dream for a future. But that certainly did not mean he had the time for it. Although, several times he had caught himself staring at Kagome as she'd held a slumbering kitsune in her arms and imagining that the small kitsune she was holding had a mop of silvery, downy hair with tiny little pointed dog-ears…
He was abruptly and rudely startled out of his musings by a brown ball of fluff slamming into his side. He started, reaching for the attacker immediately, already having figured out who it was alone by scent.
"Shippo!" He growled deeply, highly agitated from the fact that he had briefly been caught off guard.
Shippo naturally tried to squirm out of his grasp—as he did every time—but gave up quickly and crossed his arms defiantly while glaring at him. "Let me go you jerk! Put me down!"
Inuyasha shook the kitsune-brat once, hopefully to rattle his brain and to quiet him, but not hard enough to hurt him. "Shut the hell up, brat! Who do ya think ya are, slamming into me like that! I outta--!"
"It's not my fault!! If your big ass hadn't been sitting on the branch I had been aiming for, I wouldn't have slammed into you, baka!! You're too wide to miss anyway!!" Shippo yelled, quickly detangling himself from the hanyou's momentarily slack grip. He quickly scrambled up another tree branch, far out of Inuyasha's reaching range. If the hanyou wanted to get to him, he'd have to make a leaping jump towards him.
Inuyasha snarled angrily, his mood rapidly darkening enough to dispel an adequate amount of negative energy to corrupt the whole Shikon no Tama. "Why you little piece of sh--!"
"Inuyasha! OSUWARI!"
WHAM!
Inuyasha hated children. He despised them—especially Shippo; not because he basked in Kagome's attention all the time, of course or that he always got him sat one way or the other—and he wanted nothing to do with them. They were all just little pests, growing up to be either a lecherous priest or a bumbling mass of irritation.
Though…the dreams where he and Kagome had pups…now they were behaved, not irritations like Shippo…
BUT…that still didn't mean he liked 'em or wanted anything to do with 'em.
He dared, challenged and threatened the gods silently that if they ever brought upon him a child, a human one that adored him for reasons unknown—let's say because of his ears—he would wreak havoc among the realms of the kami and exact revenge.
Inuyasha didn't like children.
And children certainly didn't like him.
Somewhere, someone heard Inuyasha's challenge—his dislike for children and their obvious distaste for him—and decided to help him by showing him that children were not as judgmental as adults.
And that he was going to have to deal with something he'd never dealt with before.
A being that was going to be totally devoted, taken by and dependent on him.
Chapter notes:
Degeneration – to revert; to relapse
Next chapter you'll see just why I chose this specific title!
And, yes, for all you permanently scarred and devastated ppl out there…I WILL be updating my other fics! Yes, that means Methods of Seduction!
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